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Real Lyrics -> Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics -> Roy Clark
Ever hear an unbeat song with very depressing lyrics?
Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics, Roy Clark
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Roy Clark's, "I Never Picked Cotton"
The Lyrics:
It was Saturday night in Memphis when a redneck grabbed my shirt.
And he said "Go back in your cotton sack." I left him dyin' in the dirt.
They'll take me in the mornin' to the gallows just outside.
And in the time I've got there ain't a hullava lot that I can look back on with pride.
But I never picked cotton...
But my mother did and my brother did and my sister did
And I'll never die young workin' in a coal mine.
And he said "Go back in your cotton sack." I left him dyin' in the dirt.
They'll take me in the mornin' to the gallows just outside.
And in the time I've got there ain't a hullava lot that I can look back on with pride.
But I never picked cotton...
But my mother did and my brother did and my sister did
And I'll never die young workin' in a coal mine.
Why:
This is a thoroughly rousing and upbeat melody, for a song about murdering somebody and awaiting one's hanging in the morning!
Submitted by: Jamie Burke
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